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Wednesday, 13th July

You need to get the right way of looking at your fitness or you will find it a slog and you will ultimately quit. Many people accept a gym as being shown around once and then being forgotten about, then being on a year’s contract that you become so de-motivated that you never show up almost never again.

Also, if you view it as a grind, something that gives you pain, and an unnecessary part of your life, then your fitness journey is going to be a very short one, almost guaranteed to fail and you will become one of those people who “tried it but didn’t work for me”.

These are two guaranteed ways to fail, if you have been through this you may consider getting fit and healthy as “impossible”.

We provide overwhelming evidence each and every day that you don’t need to become one of those frustrated individuals who can’t seem to get fit, try every fad that comes along, or stop-start, or go up and down with their weight and fitness levels. We have enough evidence that this should be entirely a thing of the past for you.

If you approach your fitness journey with an open mind, examine the evidence of what exercising and eating right over a sustained period can REALLY provide, then you should be certain that getting into great physical condition is INEVITABLE for you.

Exercise is a science, not something you approach with a haphazard approach. Jumping on a treadmill for ten minutes, then a bike, and then maybe a couple of machines, then looking around to see if nobody is watching, then ending your workout promptly and trying to convince yourself that you have somehow done your best need not happen these days.

Yes you can exercise with a back back, bad hip, bad knee, and various health conditions. All you have to do is start off gently and develop gradually and make sure you are under constant supervision of an exercise professional.

Aiming higher, thinking bigger, expecting much more out of your health and fitness journey is not only possible, it’s your right!

Twitt
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Monday, 11th July

Understanding the real deep down reason why you exercise is MASSIVELY important to your long term success and continued habit of exercising.

Doing it just for a wedding, for a holiday, for the beginning of a sports season is usually a good way to crash on your programme when those events happen, and you say “then what”?

Getting to ask better questions of yourself os a great start.

So if you are getting ready for a wedding, it’s natural you want to look your best for your wedding, that’s totally understandable! What happens afterwards though? What happens if you don’t exercise, then isn’t it natural to assume you may put on weight, not feel so good, and your confidence and self-esteem levels seem likely to drop? What happens to your moods and those around you?

Isn’t it better to get fitter and STAY fitter? If you are feeling more full of energy, aren’t you able to contribute more to your marriage, the household, your family and relationship in general?

What about the beginning of a sports season? Isn’t it always the same with a sports team, you get loads out in the summer when the weather is nice and come october or november, training numbers for teams can often drop 90%?!!! If you had most of your team taking all year round training seriously, then it doesn’t take a genius to work out that your team would become way more successful?!!!

What happens when you work hard for a holiday? You usually drink and eat more on holiday, usually put a lot of weight back on anyway, and what happens to that euphoria when you come back? Does it turn into a big sulk realising that you wont be on holiday until next year?

Are you really going to be sulking for another 11 months? Isn’t there more in life to look forward to?!!!

Being healthier and fitter should be a 12 month part of your life. When you’re fitter and healthier, you tend to do better at everything. Your relationships are better, you tend to do better at work, you contribute more and tend to be a great example to your family and friends and this is all to do with increased energy, a greater sense of wellbeing and a sense you are improving and progressing in life, and not stuck in a rut that can and will bring you down.

Find your long term reason to exercise, grab it, keep it tight and it will be with you always as your reason to exercise, eat well and your reason to keep on progressing and achieving your ambitions in life.

Twitt
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Thursday, 7th July

When does pizza, takeaways, wine, beer, ready meals become “most” days and workouts go from “most days” to not at all or occasionally?

All of you start with high ambitions, you “really” want to do it this time!

You will likely start off really well, and get some good healthy food in, and your energy levels begin to get better, you started to feel better and your clothes start to feel better.

Most of you keep this momentum up, and start to excel in our programme.

What happens when you start to miss workouts, for whatever reason? It’s at this exact stage when things start to go pear-shaped.

When you miss a workout, you won’t feel that great moment when anything is possible, when you get that immediate lift, when you feel much more positive, when you start to dream bigger, when you wonder where exercise has been all your life!

Miss a few workouts and those wondrous, joyous feelings soon become a distant memory. You start losing the courage and the will to start back.

It is EASIER not to show up, to start NEXT week which is the week that never comes, doing nothing is always much easier than taking action after all.

It’s at this stage that trips to the supermarket, co-op, etc become more regular for the pizza, takeaways, wine, beer and you rationalise it by telling yourself that “everyone else does it” so why don’t i?”.

The difference between being in great shape physically and mentally, and being out of shape, not training and making continuous poor choices destroying your motivation and drive, are often all to do with that decision you made to start skipping the things that made you great in the first place.

Momentum is your friend, keep showing up, keep setting new personal bests and keep that motivating promise you made to yourself when you first started and you were REALLY going to do it this time no matter what!

Twitt
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Monday, 4th July

Sometimes you have to make your own way, your own decisions in key moments and decisions that will go against the grain. You have to see through tried and tested advice and strategies, or your results will not be as good as you would like.

If you rely on the crowd you normally hang out with to make your decisions, and they will definitely offer many opinions often based on their own muddled thinking, then your decision making will be all over the place.

Think of kids in school, you wouldn’t like it if they got influenced by the “wrong” crowd and went against the tried and tested way to do things? Your “crowd” similarly will have a same effect on you if you let them.

Some may tell you that spin classes are better, even though the air assault bike will destroy that bike in 3 minutes or less.

You may get talked into a nice and easy cross trainer for a “fat burning” programme, when 5 minutes on our ski machine will leave you gasping on the floor.

You may get talked into taking shakes instead of real food, knowing deep down that they are only temporary weight loss aids, ALWAYS leading to you putting the weight back on and more and the misery that brings.

This is when you MUST stick to your guns, stick to the way you know works, and be prepared to see it through no matter what.

There will always be a gimmick, some magic supplement that they have discovered after “2000 years”, there will no end of heavy marketing trying to get you to sign up to some model/trainer’s plan, even if they don’t train anyone in real life.

Having clarity and being decisive in life is the only way to get through this and reach the deep down goals you are really excited about.

Hard work, a strong tried and tested strategy, never giving up no matter what are all 100% guaranteed ways to get what you want and a heck of a lot more!

Making strong decisions is not always going to be the easy way, or the popular way with your friends or people who always try to take you off the path, but doing things the RIGHT way will make sure you get the amazing results you really want and that’s what ultimately will make you happy..

Twitt
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Tuesday, 28th June

I was speaking to one lady this morning who told me what it took to create her amazing transformation. I can’t put it online as she a deeply private person but here’s the story.

The key she said was getting to the point where she felt she had to change, was sick and tired the way she was after years of putting on weight and feeling terrible, and the critical moment was when SHE was responsible for her actions, how she put the weight on in the first place, and she would now be the person who would get OUT of it now.

She said she would receive plenty of sympathy staying the way she was, as many felt the same way, but was deeply unhappy and had to change and do it now!

Here’s what she did.

First of all, she put a picture up of when she used to look her best-around ten years ago, and desperately wanted to look like that again. Not only look like that, she wanted to FEEL as good as she looked back then. It seemed like a world away, but she knew she could get back there if she carried out the things that she knew would work.

She printed out one of our eating plans and shopping lists and put it on the fridge, and stuck to the lists with only the occasional treat thrown in so she wouldn’t crash and burn by being so strict to start with.

Then she started listening to more positive stuff, reading more and generally avoiding negative friends and terrible news on TV for instance that would make her depressed. The time she spent watching TV she now spent training, walking the dogs or looking after a grandchildren (they went for walks too with her!).

Every day she took some action to get her closer to that photo, and suddenly her sense of wellbeing started to rise, and feeling good encouraged her to do even more.

The 5 stone she felt she needed to lose she forget about, as she realised that proper fat loss involves weight training and you don’t always lose it on the scales. She went down from a size 18 to a 12 and now she has her mojo back, and she has that amazing feeling again that anything is possible in her life again, everything in her life improved and she helps out in her friends and family’s life like never before because she didn’t used to have the energy.

Recognising where you are and being honest with yourself is vital. Then identifying what you need to do to change it and be your best is so important. Are you really doing your best or could you give a lot more?

It’s all within your power to change and make it happen.

Twitt